Poverty Alleviation

With just five years left to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new United Nations report has warned that the world is “alarmingly off-track” on gender equality, placing millions of women and girls at risk of being left behind.

The decision has drawn fire not only for protecting the accused, but also for potentially emboldening malicious actors.

According to the survey, 27.93 per cent of Bangladesh’s population now lives below the upper poverty line, a sharp rise from 18.7 per cent in 2022.

Nepal’s brick industry – valued at several million dollars and employing approximately 300,000 workers – thrives during its limited work season.

These schemes aim to support private companies, startups, and cooperatives in setting up and expanding infrastructure in the food processing industry.

Among the foreign giants vying for entry are DP World from the UAE, PSA Singapore, and APM Terminals, a unit of Denmark-based A.P. Moller-Maersk.

Launched in commemoration of the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives 2025, the ‘Seeding Strength’ campaign highlights the transformative role of agricultural cooperatives in India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Nepal.

The report says that the COVID-19 pandemic is a profound global example of the inequitable health outcomes driven by upstream social determinants. From its outset, socio-economic inequality was a predictor of higher mortality.